[Formed as prec. + -SHIP.]
1. = SULTANATE 2. rare.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, III. ii. 197. The Sultanship of the Chalipha.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 218. When he resigned the Sultanship to his brother.
1832. Examiner, 505/1. Pleading for the importation of a Turkish Sultanship.
2. The personality of a sultan; his sultanship, applied as a mock-title to a despot or tyrant.
1822. Byron, Juan, VIII. cix. They fell … Upon his angry sultanship.
1859. H. Kingsley, G. Hamlyn, xxvii. The idea of his having a rival … never entered his Sultanship’s head.
1862. Miss Braddon, Lady Audley, vii. If all the divinities upon earth were ranged before him, waiting for his sultanship to throw the handkerchief.
